Football (Soccer, Association Football)

Football has an integrity problem. Whether it is the reckless behaviour of players on or off the pitch, television commentators bad-mouthing decis...

This book is the first comprehensive study on history, culture, and business of football in Asia. Football has been a symbol of the modern inventio...

Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels of homophobia ...

South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the worlds greatest writers and most celebrated footballer...

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of the nation has remained. This book examines the cont...

The American Dream is founded upon the ideological belief that you can be anything you want to be, regardless of your current class position, and i...

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football cu...

Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball t...

The intention of the book is to highlight the development of a type of football organisation that falls outside of the well documented elite profes...

While womens soccer has risen in popularity around the world, research reveals persistent gender discrimination and marginalization of girls and wo...

The study of association football has recently emerged as vibrant field of inquiry, attracting scholars worldwide from a variety of disciplinary ba...

This collection explores the multifaceted connections between soccer and society in the Middle East. It examines the social significance of soccer ...

This book explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. These...

WINNER of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral ...